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The brood war resurgence has been the only good thing in the past year and I'm so glad it's happening. Setting an alarm at 5am to watch Flash v Jaedong a few weeks ago was definitely worth how miserable I was at work that day.
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I might be getting a little too hyped here, but HD Brood War is kind of unprecedented. Reviving the former king of esports is kind of A Big Deal, and, along with Dota 2, if it does well can usher in a new ideal of keeping the same esports just updating their look/polishing the engine now and then.
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Synastren posted:I mean, except for the HD remakes of the Infinity Engine games, the HD remake of Age of Empires 2, and the incoming FF7 HD remake, sure. Devs are cashing in on nostalgia for 90s games pretty hard in the last couple of years. None of those are former esports. None of those games (arguably) redefined their genre. I was saying unprecedented in that the remaster could make brood war the number 1 competitive RTS again, and even potentially bring it in-line with Lol/Dota/CS:GO in terms of current esport popularity. I'm very, very excited at the prospect of brood war coming back to the forefront during a time when esports is actually understood and moderately accepted, rather than what it was in the early 2000s. It's unprecedented because we've never seen a game be a hyper competitive esport with an insanely huge scene get brought back and remastered years after its declined and its playerbase has moved on (for the most part.) Mostly because esports is so young, but seeing where this goes is a huge part of my hype with it.
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Mar 27, 2017 15:59
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Remastered BW isn't going to get anywhere near the constant levels that LoL, CS and DotA get. I doubt even Overwatch numbers, although it could probably pass HotS. Have you played Dota? Dota 2 is literally a game where they intentionally replicated every single stupid janky interaction that was a limitation of the original engine the game was on. You can STILL a-click the ground to drop turret aggro on you. Sure, BW has some quirks, but they add to the ceiling of the game.
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Actually the Dota meta is pretty diverse atm. I'd say 35-40 are picked routinely, give or take.
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Mar 28, 2017 23:56
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WDIIA posted:DAT SCAN This game was so loving good and reminded me why I used to fanboy so drat hard for Flash.
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Elyv posted:oh, bisu vs soulkey happened a night ago no not at all actually
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isndl posted:They don't have vision to know how far back the tank line extends. Terran has Vessels out by that stage of the game so Observers aren't going to last very long, and if you try diving in with your Arbiter it's going to get hit by EMP. Just stasis the backline after EMP goes off, obviously 
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What a loving bummer. No wonder he just played like, 2.5 straight up macro games against the best macro player in history. He probably didn't even want to be there.
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Jun 5, 2017 23:30
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Minrad posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTdGqzrv7wQ&t=210s I love this so much
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Jun 11, 2017 20:30
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when he collapses screaming into his pikachu doll while jaedong watches holy poo poo
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Groovelord Neato posted:blizzard is such a garbage loving company.
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Jul 18, 2017 22:39
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Yeah for all the illegal copies of brood war I made for friends in middle school I definitely paid that back over the years with repurchases.
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Jul 19, 2017 22:59
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I would love a super minor balance patch that just made some of the unusable/fringe poo poo fractionally better just to see how much it would shake up the meta
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God drat Group B just gonna be muta/ling for like 4 solid loving hours
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animatorZed posted:There was a brief mention of it after one of baxter's games, but what's the deal with sea not being in this tournament? They didn't really explain other than saying baxter replaced him. Didn't sea have some like ridiculous poo poo going on with his ex-wife and the custody of his kids during that last tournament? Maybe he just needed a break/is still dealing with that.
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Sep 25, 2017 00:33
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Yeah it was shine, I saw the S name and blanked 
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Sep 25, 2017 04:14
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Yeah the bisu/flash match bouta be hype, then a quick stomp in the finals almost assuredly. But I'm glad Larva got as far as he did. He's fun to watch and I hope he continues to improve off-ladder, I love watching his stupid aggression
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Oct 30, 2017 23:40
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Flash is my hero for game 3 but what are you gonna do against that hot Bisu tech
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Nov 1, 2017 04:09
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It looks like Sky might have been arrested for match fixing https://compete.kotaku.com/starcraft-remastered-pro-arrested-for-match-fixing-1823809648
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Herstory Begins Now posted:loving rapid annoys me every time I see his face. Even Artosis seemed pretty over his poo poo during the shuttle/rain match
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I'm trying to avoid spoilers about this series but re game 1: i'm so glad valkyries are being used, i was hoping that the remaster (which notably fixed the valkyrie bug) would allow pros to actively take advantage of them in tvz
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Oct 21, 2018 18:14
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Elyv posted:Pros started using valks back in 2009 and I don't think the sprite bug would have been relevant in the spots where they were built that game. loving lmao guess I’m gonna catch up on that tonight
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Those finals were good. This was one of the better ASLs imo, at least the knockout stage portion. It had some clunkers but man there was some really awesome, innovative play and effort looked monstrous in the finals. that game 1 win was the most "oh poo poo" moment in recent brood war for me, the vulture surrounds were absurd
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Oct 29, 2018 20:15
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Man some real fuckin good brood war the last few days
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Mar 7, 2019 00:56
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Lilsusie is in overwatch with Cloud9 now I believe. Also, is married to Montecristo, notoriously annoying former League-turned-Overwatch caster/analyst. At least he's not Thorin, I guess
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Jesus that game lmao, Tasteless had me rollingDEEP STATE PLOT posted:"but what if this is brilliant" not even a GG at the end, and the observer doesn't leave immediately holy poo poo I'm crying Zombies magazine fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Oct 24, 2019 |
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Is there a vod/stream timestamp anywhere? I just woke up from a turkey coma Nvm there's a video on the official twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/514721194
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